Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23

Linus Torvalds
2020-03-24T16:43:14Z

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 9:28 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> Are you or Kees going to deal with any fallout from upping the binutils
> version, rushed in in the last week before the merge window?

I think it's ok. It's not going to cause any _subtle_ failures, it's
going to cause very clear "oh, now it doesn't build" errors.

No?

And binutils 2.23 is what, 7+ years old by now and apparently had
known failure cases too.

But if there are silent and subtle failures, that might be a reason to
be careful. Are there?

Linus